Konami C&D'ing Programmed World is basically a reminder of how fucked you are arcade-wise if you don't live in Japan, or at least South Korea, Taiwan, or select parts of Southeast Asia. The onlinification of arcade games coupled with many arcade devs pursuing DRM for arcade games as well as a "rent our games and we'll take a fraction of each credit" model basically means the only way to get a solid (or hell, any)Â experience out of playing Japanese-developed arcade games is to travel to Japan. Unless you already live there.
It sucks, but Konami's simply trying to protect their copyrights. We can only hope that their global expansion of the eAMUSEMENT website leads to something better, and that the C&D order doesn't end up being like the one Sega issued over Streets of Rage: Remake (read: leads to nothing good for fans).
Though tbh I don't have much hope, when there's no fucking market for Japanese arcade games here. After all, arcade gaming has been irrelevant to 99.9% of Western video game players for over 15 years, and will continue to only get moreso.
